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Sylvester Carey 1920 - 2012

Sylvester Carey was born on October 21, 1920, and died at age 92 years old on November 11, 2012. Sylvester Carey was buried at Ft. Mitchell National Cemetery Section 15 Site 1029 553 Highway 165, in Ft Mitchell, Al. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Sylvester Carey.
Sylvester Carey
October 21, 1920
November 11, 2012
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  • 10/21
    1920

    Birthday

    October 21, 1920
    Birthdate
    Unknown
    Birthplace
  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Army, Us Army Rank attained: SFC Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii, Korea, Vietnam
  • 11/11
    2012

    Death

    November 11, 2012
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
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    Ft. Mitchell National Cemetery Section 15 Site 1029 553 Highway 165, in Ft Mitchell, Al 36856
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In 1920, in the year that Sylvester Carey was born, speakeasies replaced saloons as the center of social activity. After the 18th Amendment was ratified and selling alcohol became illegal, saloons closed and speakeasies took their place. Speakeasies, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, were "so called because of the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police or neighbors". There were a lot of them and they were very popular. And where saloons often prohibited women, they were encouraged at speakeasies because of the added profits.
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In 1933, he was merely 13 years old when on December 5th, the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The 21st Amendment said "The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed." Alcohol was legal again! It was the only amendment to the Constitution approved for the explicit purpose of repealing a previously existing amendment. South Carolina was the only state to reject the Amendment.
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